One is without an automobile

[Sara_H]

..and it's a dashed infernal nuisance. I believe some chaps advocate this as a a raison d'etre and some women too, probably suffragettes but they probably don't have my knees and offspring to get around so the old safety bicycle is just not on at the moment.

Needs must though and the offspring needed taking to the infirmary and wot not. So I was led to believe that an Omnibus, leaving at it's own convenience would carry us back, having managed conveyance in another automobile to said infirmary.

Anyway, it all went jolly well, bit biting whilst we waited for the chap to turn up but so so. Up he turned and we leapt aboard. "One and a half to my place of abode please, my stout fellow", I said. "80 shillings, 24 pennies", he replied. I spluttered a bit and asked him if he'd perhaps pressed the wrong lever on his contraption but the chap was quite certain.

I exclaimed to the offspring that I'd have to get to the surgery and get these knees fixed so we could get back on the safety bicycles because if we had to use these omnibuses too often we'd be better off with a new automobile.

I then noticed a curious creature smiling at us, a bit simple looking. "Don't smile back" I said to the offspring. "Probably just been released from the infirmary and is a bit ga, ga"

It's all rather inconvenient.

Dashed expensive nuisance.

Up here in God's Own County, we have a system whereby a fellow from the local whereabouts can be summonsed by one of those new fangled long distance telecommunications contraptions to bring his own automobile for the conveyance of yourself and your offspring to the location of your choosing.
Of course, whilst there is great advantage in this method of conveyance, in that the infirmary lunatics will not be permitted to share the automobile, the frenzied lever pressing of the good fellow when calculating the fare leaves one dizzy with hysteria!

 

[ASC1951]

Dashed expensive nuisance.
Up here in God's Own County...

And elsewhere in God's Own County, one's Little Green Astra had to be abandoned 40 miles away when it refused to re-start. The cost of recovery to the Ancestral Home is <cough> about as much as it is worth.

 

[rich p]

Tell Mrs Crax to cycle to work and nick her car. Those fine fellows in CAD will tell you to move nearer the hospital

 

[Crackle]

gave up the car in Feb............ok - except i have to plan grocery trips based on the weather forecast

My dear fellow, I hope you've not been taken in by these idealist chaps who'd have us believe the future is the past and wot not. Worse than the fellows with placards declaring the end is nigh.

 

[simon the viking]

[QUOTE 3016949, member: 259"]If we didn't have one there'd be nowhere for my kids to keep their empty crisp packets and drink cans.[/QUOTE]
This^^^^^ I lifted the back seat of our 6 month old car to find loads of wrappers etc already hiding and plotting world domination under there..... "what are these doing here?"..... "Don't know daddy.... its not me......"

The no eating or drinking in the new car rule lasted about a week..... (for all of us though I am ashamed to admit)

 

[snorri]

If only there was some way of finding out, by some electronic medium or some such

http://traveline.info/

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I concur with the optional efficacy of ones own horseless carriage contraption, one of ones most beloved family members (Max the Lurcher hound) is in severe pain with a spinal injury and making intermittent noises like Satan himself is tormenting the poor blighter. The five mile trip to our vetinary surgeon would not be permitted by omnibus, he not being an assistance dog, and the velocipede is inappropriate not only for the sensitivity of his disposition but also because his legs can't reach the pedals and he'd fall off the crossbar.

One's noble hound is not allowed to travel on the Omnibus?? Where does one reside??

 

[KneesUp]

One also finds the family conveyance to be a place where food wrappings are jettisoned with carefree abandon.

As our family has but a single automobile in itsownership, I often find myself making using of the charabanc to facilitate my travel homeward. It is at the sametime uncomfortable, dashed inconvenient and startlingly expensive. For this reason I have taken a solemn vow to make more frequent use of my bicycle for such purposes of travelling to and from my place of work.

 

[EltonFrog]

http://traveline.info/

What you telling me for? I've got a bloody car, only poor people use buses.

 

[snorri]

poor people

I believe the more popular term is "losers".

 

[EltonFrog]

I believe the more popular term is "losers".

You might say that...

 

[KneesUp]

I believe the more popular term is "losers".

I'll have you know that it costs considerably more per mile to travel by omnibus than it does in one's automobile, even accounting for such inconvenient items such as insurance, road tax and depreciation.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

One has been led to believe from one's Butler than an Omnibus is scarcely removed from a large People Carrier for poor people.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I'll have you know that it costs considerably more per mile to travel by omnibus than it does in one's automobile, even accounting for such inconvenient items such as insurance, road tax and depreciation.

And those beastly cyclists getting in the way and slowing one down too!!

How very irksome!!

 

[martint235]

How on earth have I coped all these years? Never owned a car, my parents haven't owned a car since about 5 years before I was born. Was never allowed a horse either although was frequently told to visit Mr Shanks and borrow his pony if I wanted to go anywhere.